Jay Gulledge

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Dr. Jay Gulledge is the Senior Scientist and Director for Science and Impacts at the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (formerly the Pew Center on Global Climate Change), a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security, and a Next Generation Fellow of the American Assembly at Columbia University. He is a Certified Senior Ecologist with two decades of experience teaching and conducting research in the biological and environmental sciences. His scientific research examines the biological mechanisms and social drivers of greenhouse gas exchange between ecosystems and the atmosphere. After 16 years in academic research, Dr. Gulledge shifted focus to the science/policy interface, informing policy-makers, business leaders, the public, and the press about the science and impacts of global environmental change and approaches for managing the associated risks. After earning the PhD degree at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, he was a Life Sciences Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University and susequently held faculty posts at Tulane University and the University of Louisville. In 2011, he was nominated for the American Geophysical Union’s Charles S. Falkenberg Award and George Mason University’s Climate Change Communicator of the Year award. The Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) is an independent non-profit, non-partisan organization promoting strong policy and action to address the twin challenges of energy and climate change. Launched in November 2011, C2ES is the successor to the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, long recognized in the United States and abroad as an influential and pragmatic voice on climate issues. C2ES is led by Eileen Claussen, who previously led the Pew Center and is the former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs.